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It wouldn't be exactly a polar orbit, but slightly offset from one - like a sun-synchronous orbit around the earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-synchronou

• btilly 8y ago
  Exactly. And since the orbit turns at the same speed as the Moon does, it works. That is why in the article they offer a map of where the landing could have been and came up with https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/moonpossiblelandings.png https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/moonpossible... You see the landings on the equator, and also the strip going over the pole.
  • haberman 8y ago
    But what makes the orbit turn? What is accelerating the satellite?
    • MPSimmons 8y ago
      It uses the equatorial bulge to process the orbit. https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/5312/why-would-sun-synchronous-orbits-be-impossible-around-perfectly-spherical-bodies https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/5312/why-would-sun...